America’s Road To Wealth

  Chapter 544 Ended in 2002 (8,000-character chapter)

   After the feast, everything was temporarily calm.

  The next day is September 11th of this year.

  This day last year was a day worth remembering for all Americans.

  On that day, the Americans, who had become accustomed to being invincible in the world, discovered with horror that even if they were in the "safe" United States, they could still be attacked by enemy countries.

   as likely to die.

  Since then, the government of George, who was originally so powerful that it could not be smaller, jumped to the top in an instant and became one of the most powerful leaders in the history of the United States.

  But this is all in the past, and people have to look forward after all.

  The dead are already dead, and the living should live better.

  On September 11, 2002, activities to commemorate and mourn the victims of the September 11 incident were launched across the United States.

  As the center of everything, of course Manhattan, New York is particularly important.

  If there is no traffic control, I don’t know how many people will want to come to the site of the Petronas Twin Towers on this day to commemorate.

   At 8:00 am on this day, Abel and many other people appeared at the site of the ruins.

  Countless people looked at the ruins in silence, only the sound of the cameras being pressed by the reporters who exploded.

   There are also flashing lights that flash from time to time, densely like stars in the sky.

   8:46 am.

Time is up.

  As a bell rang, all the cars in Manhattan and even New York all honked their horns for a long time.

  The sound of an air defense siren sounded along with it.

   This wave of sound seems to be contagious. At the same time, most cities across the United States are like New York. Cars stop driving and press their horns, and harsh sirens resound over the city.

  The Americans seem to want to use this move to mourn the 2,996 Americans who died.

   Having said that, this trick was actually suggested by Abel to George.

   Otherwise, according to the arrangement of George's administration, at most the bells of churches across the country will ring, and the air defense sirens will sound again in Washington and Manhattan.

  Abel’s suggestion of national car mourning honking made George feel very meaningful, it looked more solemn, and it could have a better effect on the commemorative activities.

   This is of great help to him in ruling and managing the United States. He relied on this incident to have his current status.

  George readily accepted this, and then there was today's scene.

  After the three-minute long honking of car horns and air defense sirens across the United States ended.

   On the podium that had been set up next to the ruins of the Petronas Twin Towers, Abel began to perform on the stage.

  The speech has been prepared long ago, designed and edited by the Smith Intellectual Group, and then handed over to the relevant departments of the White House for review and revision—on such a special commemorative occasion, don’t think that you don’t have to go through this experience if you have a relationship with Abel.

  In this regard, the United States is actually more exaggerated than any other country.

  After the manuscript was reviewed, it finally fell into the hands of Abel.

  The content of the manuscript is the same anyway, promoting American exceptionalism, saying that Americans are innocent, and saying that KBFZ and their supporters should go to hell. The war thus launched by the U.S. military is sacred and so on...

  For such an important manuscript on such an occasion, even if Abel wants to make trouble, it is not appropriate.

  When the final speech is about to end, there is another mandatory "God Bless America", and it's over.

  During his speech, the applause was naturally continuous. After the end, the applause was even more enthusiastic like thunder.

   Of course, this is all arranged, and there is a strong sense of moral kidnapping.

  Whoever does not applaud at this time is the enemy of the United States.

  Abel felt that even if he changed his pig, he would probably get this level of applause.

   There is nothing to show off, the only thing he is proud of is that his being able to go up means that he is more popular with Americans than the US President in this period.

  If it wasn't for the fact that my age didn't allow me, and I didn't have that idea.

  Abel felt that if he went to the general election now, he might be able to win.

  Unfortunately, the Constitution stipulates that if you want to be the President of the United States, you must be at least 35 years old.

  He is not yet twenty-three, 12 years away from this requirement.

   To change this provision, the Constitution must be amended.

   Wanting to amend the U.S. Constitution seems impossible on the surface. For more than 200 years, the U.S. Constitution has remained the same as it was originally.

   But in fact, this is just a layer of skin, and the Constitution is indeed still the original one.

  Americans have actually amended the Constitution many times long ago, but they have adopted new laws indirectly, called "Constitutional Amendments", which are directly outside the Constitution. The amendments are simple and direct.

   And wanting to pass this outrageous amendment is almost telling all Americans, "I, Smith, want to be the commander-in-chief now."

   This can be said to be the American version of Sima Zhao’s heart, just think about it, but there is no need to do it for the time being.

   What's more, in many cases, the White House and the Grand Commander are just the spokespersons pushed by the interest representatives behind them.

  If the Grand Commander himself is a big boss and holds power, then he can become a powerful Grand Commander.

  Like Master Ronaldinho back then, he was the founder of the U.S. Navy and a super wealthy family on the East Coast.

  At that time, the U.S. Army could be said to be better than nothing. In other words, Master Luo was a super military leader who completely controlled the U.S. Army.

  With the existence of these two factors, Master Luo has the ability to eat a capitalist a day, and is able to almost bring the United States on a road that has never been imagined.

  It's a pity that such a super boss was eventually defeated by the united capitalists and died of cerebral hemorrhage in the white house.

  So many times, the Grand Commander is really nothing. The recent case of George is an example. If 9/11 hadn't happened, it is not certain whether his words would be able to get out of the White House.

  Simply put, the US President is very extreme. Those with great power can eat up a capitalist in a day, while orders with little power may not be able to leave Washington.

  The anniversary ended, and then Abel met with the Ambani brothers.

  Meeting with the richest man in the third brother, Abel got straight to the point and said directly that he wanted to do business with them in the third brother's country.

   But what I want to do is real estate business, I will enter under the name of D. Ted Lerner, and cooperate with the two brothers.

  At the same time, if necessary, he can help Reliance Group to list in the United States or London.

  The former Ambani was a little tangled and suspicious.

  The option listed later, that is, no matter Mukesh Ambani or Anil Ambani, I feel a little overjoyed.

   Now in 2002, any country other than the United States. Once a company in its country can be listed in London or the United States, it can be said to be an honor.

  A thing that can be shown off among the same industry in China, and ordinary people will be more in pursuit of the company's products if they know about it.

  Even if you are the richest man in Sange, Mukesh Ambani is still very excited.

  Who doesn’t know that a dollar is worth a dollar, and the market value of a company listed in the United States is a dollar.

   Isn't this better than earning a wretched rupees in Mumbai?

  Follow-up work has started smoothly since then. And Abel also officially started the layout in the third brother's country through the cooperation with the Ambani brothers.

  His earlier arrangement of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Sango Kerala can finally start.

   Instead of being like before, even if a tourism company is established, there are still a lot of Asan watching during the development and repair process, and we must be careful to avoid international incidents that are difficult to deal with.

   Just like that, time flies, and the last few months of 2002 will soon be over.

  During the period, Smith Capital unsurprisingly held its third year-end investment reception.

   This year's year-end investment reception is much larger than the previous two.

  For the first investment reception, Abel was only at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, and less than 200 people were invited.

  The second time was at the Smith Building in LC, Queens, and more than 300 people were invited.

  At the Smith reception in the third year, Abel directly booked the entire Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

   Then more than 1,000 guests were invited to settle in, and then divided into four meeting areas, and different admission permissions were set according to the strength level of the guests.

   The most senior banquet was hosted by himself, while the other three were handed over to David, Jess and others.

  At this year-end reception, Smith Financial Group announced the financial report of Smith Capital for this fiscal year.

  The financial report is sent to everyone, and the specific items are very long.

  But the most important data in it is that in the 200111-200211 fiscal year, the total revenue of Smith Capital was 114.938 billion US dollars, a year-on-year +265.07%.

   There are also two figures of net profit attributable to the parent of 78.634 billion, which is 219.90% year-on-year.

  A net profit of US$78.634 billion, this is a number that makes everyone scream.

  It’s very simple. Compared with the financial report of Goldman Sachs in almost the same fiscal year, Smith Capital’s annual revenue is almost ten times that of Goldman Sachs, and its net profit attributable to its parent is almost 20 times that of Goldman Sachs, one of the largest investment banks on Wall Street!

  Here’s Goldman Sachs’ earnings report for the same period—

   Total revenue was 14.938 billion, +265.07% year-on-year.

  Net profit attributable to the parent company was 3.234 billion, a year-on-year -17.90%.

  The data of Goldman Sachs, if not compared with Smith Capital, can actually be said to be relatively good.

  Not to mention Lehman Brothers Bank, which makes a lot of money from subprime mortgages, the data of several other major investment banks are actually similar to or not comparable to Goldman Sachs.

  Goldman Sachs is no match for Smith Capital, which is really a non-war crime.

  Amidst the shock, investors and guests carefully checked the details of Smith Capital's financial report data.

  The above shows that most of the profits of Smith Capital are not in the traditional investment banking business.

   but in other ways.

  For example, in May of this year, Smith Capital reached an outrageous monthly profit of 18.6 billion US dollars.

  Seeing this, everyone immediately thought of that time. Isn’t it the time when Smith, Rockefeller, and Morgan joined forces to act and cut Neon Man and Global Leek to death?

   There are also profits for June and July this year, and the combined profits of the two months are about 15 billion US dollars.

  And those two months happened to be the time when someone joined forces with Soros and began to attack London.

   There are more than 10 billion US dollars in profits in August and September.

  At the beginning of that month, it happened to be the time when the Canadian government announced that it would sell 20% of the shares of Petro-Canada to Pacific Energy Corporation.

  In addition to these large incomes, Smith Capital's record in other months is not weak at all.

  However, to the surprise of more than 1,000 guests in the end, Smith Capital actually made a total profit of more than 10 billion US dollars in international spot gold futures this year.

   And it is fixed every month. It can be seen that this investment bank has been continuously buying and selling international gold, but in the long run it has been holding it.

  It was only then that everyone discovered that since the end of last year, the international spot gold has indeed changed from the decline of previous years and has been rising almost all the time. Only short-term drops occasionally, but it will rise again soon.

  It turns out that there is a super big boss like Smith Capital behind it...

  In short, this year’s Smith Capital’s end-of-the-year reception was extremely shocking to the peers, and LPs (investors) wanted to dance on the spot. Potential LPs are all waving checks and yelling, wanting to join this carnival of wealth.

  Abe Smith has spent years proving that the sooner he joins his chariot of fortune, the sooner he can share in his glory.

   Those guys who drive at night, it will not be so easy to get in the car later.

   Regarding this point, those from the old Texas consortium said they had a great say.

  They got in the car too late at the beginning, so that they had to choose to merge with Smith before they could get in the car completely.

   Had they made up their minds back in 2000, they could have made more!

  The investment reception at the end of the year finally came to a successful conclusion.

  It made all the end-of-year investment receptions on Wall Street this year dim.

  The next day, without exception, all the data of the reception that should have been "confidential" was exposed.

  The major media in the United States, and most of the financial media in the world, all exaggerate this and frantically pursue reports.

  More than 78 billion U.S. dollars, almost 80 billion U.S. dollars in profit is really amazing.

  Abel Smith once again proved to the world his ability to make money, earning the wealth of one of the world's second richest and one of the world's third richest in almost a year.

  Under the cascading effect, as the first listed company under Abel's name, Smith Media's stock price rose accordingly.

  The stock price rose directly from 168.5 US dollars per share to 182.9 US dollars per share that day, and its market value broke through 180 billion US dollars, making it the most valuable media company in history.

  In addition to Smith Media, although Abel has no other direct listed companies.

  But the stocks of those listed companies in which he holds shares have also been sought after.

  In one day, more than 300 companies in the United States all experienced different increases because of their relationship with him or his holdings.

   An exaggerated stock like Microsoft, which is already very popular, rose 9.9% in one day.

  The worst thing is that Abel only holds 4.5% of the shares, which is completely a company like Texas Agricultural Machinery, which was won during the September 11 bailout, and it rose by more than 20% in a day.

  The reason why it is said to be poor is because Microsoft's 9.9% is more than 20% of Texas Agricultural Machinery.

   Calculated only by market value, a Microsoft market value exceeds 30 Texas agricultural machinery.

  So Microsoft's 9.9% stock gain is much more exaggerated than Texas Farm Machinery's 25%.

  That night, the evening paper of the Wall Street Journal used [Fortune Smith] as an expression of this phenomenon.

  【…In the past, investing on Wall Street only needed to recognize the name Warren Buffett. Now the list is two, with the addition of Abel Smith. 】

  【But unlike Buffett, Abel Smith is not just a Wall Street Smith. He's still the American Smith. Americans want to invest in stocks, but in fact they don't have to do anything. They only need to find out what stocks Abe Smith bought, and they will buy them along with them. 】

  【Then hold it all the time, waiting for the stock to appreciate quietly. Sell ​​it when you need money, and you will find that your money generates a lot of money. 】

  【In this regard, the author named this phenomenon-"Fortune Smith". Why take this name? This may be related to the fact that the author also happens to be surnamed Smith...]

  The phenomenon of "Wealth Smith" in the follow-up "Wall Street Journal" lasted for another two days before gradually extinguishing.

  There is another reason why this trend went out so quickly this time.

  One reason is that news is always time-sensitive. Secondly, other financial oligarchs don't want everyone to follow Abel's investment, so they are still playing a fart.

  Under their joint suppression, the news that should have been popular for at least a week was suppressed in two days this time.

   Abel didn't think it mattered, he was already strong enough.

   You don't need this kind of external name to add authority to yourself.

  Now he is the living authority.

   One of a kind.

  Time continued to move forward, and soon Christmas in 2002 arrived.

  Christmas Eve this year is completely different from the previous two years.

  Christmas Eve in 2000 was a cold winter. It started snowing in New York in November, and there were many snowstorms in December.

  The weather in New York in 2001 was normal, and it snowed in December as well.

  The weather in New York this year seems to be a warm winter. There have been a few light snowfalls since December, but the snow is so small that it melts completely when it falls to the ground.

   This allows the supermodels in Elizabeth's back garden to suffer less from this year's Christmas Eve show.

   Compared with the previous two years, today's New York Hydra Gang has taken shape.

   On the night of Christmas Eve, the third Issa show was held on Times Square in New York as scheduled.

   Not surprisingly, New York City Mayor Bloomberg, the current city speaker and other big names all attended, and New York or the Northeastern United States was full of dignitaries, just to appreciate the beautiful performances of Issa Angels and other skinny supermodels that are completely different.

   Well, this is actually a lie.

  The real reason why these rich and powerful people are willing to brave the cold weather to watch the model catwalk show is because of the name—Abel Smith.

   If it weren't for the purpose of getting in touch with Abel, he took the opportunity to get close to Abel to see if he could get on the Smith chariot.

  Where are these dignitaries willing to come?

   Especially those WASPs, they have always looked down on this kind of thing.

  The reason is that these supermodels who can make ordinary men add to the screen infinitely, in their eyes, are actually just some beautiful and a bit expensive playthings.

   They don’t say how many toys they want, but they can play with them anytime they want.

  If you can’t play with these supermodels with the Smith label on them, then other supermodels or beauty goddesses, don’t they have anything they want?

  Not to mention this kind of catwalk with clothes on, they can also afford to go without clothes on.

   At most, they are not from the same batch, but their figure and beauty will never lose to the angels of Isa.

  In this world, there are too many women who are beautiful and yearn for success, hoping to enjoy the top material.

   Among them, there will never be more than 1/10000 of them who can get what they want.

   Of the remaining 9999, at least 70 to 80% of them can be played by them.

   This kind of thing that ordinary people can't ask for is really nothing to them.

  For the third Issa Angel show, the curtain call model was Gisele Bundchen as always.

   Today's Yishaxiu is still very young, and Abel is not a little plum. Gisele Bundchen, who is satisfied with her current position and everything, will most likely leave Victoria's Secret much later than in parallel time and space.

  As usual, Abel left Manhattan for Queens as soon as the Christmas Eve show was over.

  Sit on his Boeing 747-8vip and set off back to Texas.

  Here in New York, the Hearst sisters go home for the holidays with their families. Kayla even went back two days ago because her father had a minor illness.

  She went back early to visit her father and reunited with her father at the same time. Besides, she had to go back and tell her father the good news—

   That's dear Slade, you don't have to worry about your queen being broken. Although your son can't give birth, your daughter is already pregnant!

  Of course, she couldn't have said it so bluntly. Then instead of being happy, Slade might become angry instead.

   As for the other women, Abel has already made arrangements.

   Those who want to go back to reunite with their families go back, and those who don’t go back spend the festival with their mutual "sisters".

  Like Nicole and Kate in Australia, like Jessica and Megan, etc.

   After Abel's 7-hour flight, the plane arrived at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

The time was approaching late at night, and in the darkness, Abel's Sky Palace landed smoothly and slid slowly until it came to a stop. The hanging ladder was erected, the cabin door was opened, and the bodyguards went first. After confirming the surrounding environment, a man in casual clothes with a black hood Abel stepped out of the cabin.

  Take a deep breath of air that is much warmer than New York. For Texas, which is in the south, Abel feels that it is actually more suitable for human habitation.

  Get off the hanging ladder and sit in the SUV that has been waiting for a long time.

  There is no need to ride a Cadillac monster this time.

  Because there is no such good road to go back to Smith Farm.

   In this part of Texas, SUVs and trucks, pickup trucks, and even riding horses are far more popular than sedans.

  A group of fifteen vehicles drove away from the private apron at the airport and sped towards Smith Farm.

  It takes an hour and a half to drive from the airport to the Smith family's farm.

   This is also a very embarrassing thing, there is no way, who made his air palace too big, not all the runways of the airport can accommodate it.

   After an hour and a half of galloping.

  Smith Farm is just ahead.

  Compared with a few years ago, the current Smith Farm is actually gradually transforming.

  The original Smith Farm had a total of more than 5,000 acres of land. Later, after Abel made his fortune, he bought several thousand acres with money, but up to now the total is only about 10,000 acres.

  A farm of about 10,000 acres is not that big in the United States to be honest. There are hundreds of thousands of acres or even millions of acres of farms in the United States.

  The 10,000 acres of Smith Farm is obviously not enough, but Abel has no intention of continuing to expand it.

  One is that Alexander is surrounded by acquaintances, and it is not easy to buy the land in their hands.

  Secondly, both Alexander and his wife went to Austin, and Alex and his wife only came back for one or two months a year.

   To start farms and agricultural companies, there is better and cheaper land available in the United States and other countries.

   There is no need to stare at Texas and ruin your own basic market.

So the farm was directly transformed under Abel's request, and it became his personal resort and hometown. There are no more planting and breeding, and most of the places have become rock security training grounds, leaving only some places for raising Horses and dogs.

   Then these buildings and workers, around the most central Smith Manor, exist as the last base in Abel's mind.

Sitting in the carriage at the moment, Abel looked out the front window. Under the bright starry sky, several beams of light broke through the dark night. He passed through most of the vast and empty farm along the newly repaired road, and quickly approached the central area of ​​Smith Farm. luxury estate.

  The eaves with different heights are like mushrooms with open umbrellas. Under the bright lights indoors and outdoors, the orange walls are surrounded by towering trees, just like a scene in a fairy tale.

  The convoy stopped at the square in front of the main house. Abel got out of the car and saw Charlize Theron and four maids standing at the door to welcome the return of Abel, the master.

   "It's too late, Alia and Emily have already rested."

It was clearly in the middle of the night, and Charlize, who was supposed to be wearing pajamas or casual clothes, was wearing a small dark blue V-neck windbreaker dress at this time, and her entire lower abdomen was tightened by a wide corset belt of the same fabric in the middle, which was vivid After wearing little Alia, the more majestic bust was lifted more prominently, and the entire curve was outlined so that no one could pick out any flaws. It was perfect in the night as if she was going to walk the red carpet just now.

"Laura was also waiting for you to come back. But it was too late. She happened to be three or four months pregnant, which is the time when she is most prone to sleepiness. And staying up late is not good for her and the child, so I persuaded her to go to rest. "

   "So, it's just me. Darling, your dinner is ready and ready to enjoy, and the bathtub is filled...giggle...eat first or...me first?"

   "What do you think?" Abel raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand to hug the charming Charlize into his arms with a smirk on his face, and whispered something in her ear, which made Charlize, who was already prepared, blush.

   Naturally, after a long absence is better than a newlywed.

  After the battle, Abel did not rest immediately, but went to visit his eldest daughter.

  Little Alicia has turned one year old, and Abel came back for her first birthday.

   It's been a month, and the little doll has obviously grown up a bit.

  Babies in this time period really change after a month or two.

  She has slowly learned to walk, and began to vocalize and learn to speak.

  According to Charlize, the first word little Aaliyah would say was "dad."

  He believed this kind of thing on the surface.

  But secretly, Abel felt that this was most likely a lie made up by Charlize in order to make himself pay more attention to and love little Alia.

  Because in general, most of the first words that children will say are mothers, and this is true of human babies all over the world.

   What's more, compared with Charlize, Abel is very self-aware.

  He doesn’t see his eldest daughter several times a year, and it’s always Charlize and her mother who take care of her, and occasionally mother Emily and grandmother Alia.

  Little Alicia and little Laura, the big mother, may both spend more time with each other than herself—after little Laura returned to Texas, most of them now live in Smith Farm.

  In this case, how could it be possible to talk about father first instead of mother.

  Even if you really talk about dad first, there is a high probability that it is under the crazy teaching of Charlize, and you will talk about dad first when you are affected.

  He doesn't really care about these things. Although he is said to be an illegitimate daughter, he really likes little Alia.

   With more and more illegitimate children/daughters, Abel is now comfortable with this kind of thing.

   He even has an attitude that it doesn't matter if he is discovered.

  This is related to the fact that the United States is very tolerant in this regard. I have to say that in terms of illegitimate children, this problem is really not a problem in the United States.

  Whether in real life or in TV movies, Americans feel that they are living in a "post-moral" era. Many Americans "lightning" get married and then "lightning" divorce. The one-night pleasure between two lovers is even more rampant. How can there be morality in a society that is so casual about marriage and the relationship between men and women?

  The so-called "X liberation" is only one aspect of American society. In other respects, Americans have shown a strong sense of morality.

   For American public figures, the immorality of public life is more terrifying than the immorality of private life.

   Immorality in private life is really nothing in the United States. In the United States, it is common for celebrities and celebrities to have an illegitimate child or a scandal. But the most important thing is that as long as these people are honest and self-sufficient in public life, there will be no major problems, at least they must show their integrity and self-discipline, because public life involves the interests of the people.

   To put it bluntly, all Americans are collectively selfish. Do whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t affect my interests.

   Gently kissed the eldest daughter, and Abel gave a sigh of satisfaction.

  He just turned around and walked behind. Originally, he wanted to go back to Charlize's room and continue sleeping with the South African diamond in his arms.

  But after thinking about it, he still turned a corner halfway and returned to his master bedroom familiarly.

   Sure enough, at the door, I saw the female bodyguard I arranged for little Laura, and Miss Hannah, a former FBl agent.

  The little Laura of course rested inside.

  He went in, **** his big Simmons, and gently hugged the little Laura, who was obviously rounder after three months of pregnancy, closed his eyes and fell asleep for a second.

   Today, one chapter is worth two chapters, so I only owe one chapter, and I will make up for it later.

  (end of this chapter)